A u003ciu003eNew York Times u003c/iu003eNotable Book u003cbru003eu003cbru003eA man tells a story to a woman sitting beside him on a plane, little suspecting what it reveals about his capacity for cruelty and contempt. A callow runaway girl is stranded in a strange city with another woman’s fractiously needy children. An uncomprehending father helplessly lashes out at the daughter he both loves and resents. In these raw, startling, and incandescently lovely stories, the author of u003ciu003eVeronica u003c/iu003eyields twelve indelible portraits of people struggling with the disparity between what they want and what they know. u003ciu003eBecause They Wanted To u003c/iu003eis further evidence that Gaitskill is one of the fiercest, funniest, and most subversively compassionate writers at work today.
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